On democracy [electronic resource] / Robert A. Dahl.
"A primer on democracy that clarifies what it is, why it is valuable, how it works, and what challenges it confronts in the future."--Jacket.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via De Gruyter) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
1998.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Do we really need a guide?
- Beginning
- Where and how did democracy develop? a brief history
- What lies ahead?
- Ideal democracy
- What is democracy?
- Why democracy?
- Why political equality I? Intrinsic equality
- Why political equality II? Civil competence
- Actual democracy
- What political institutions does large-scale democracy require?
- Varieties I: democracy on different scales
- Varieties II: constitutions
- Varieties III: parties and electoral systems
- Conditions favorable and unfavorable
- What underlying conditions favor democracy?
- Why market-capitalism favors democracy
- Why market-capitalism harms democracy
- Unfinished journey.